The Dillon tribune., 1887-11-04
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Jonathan Christian, once Solicitor Gen.
eral for Ireland, is dead.
Father Petetal, chief Of French orato.
rians, died at Paris on Sunday.
Copper is booming At New York and
Boston copper stocks are greatly excited.
Maggie Arlington, the we'll known &C.
tress died at II o'clock Monday night in
New York.
The steamer Panama went ashore OF St.
Sebastian, Florida. All the passengers and
crew were saved.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has
pronounced against France entering the
Sugar Bounty Conference.
The bodies Of nineteen Of the victims Of
the propeller Vernon disaster have been
picked up near Two Rivers, Wis.
The gross exchanges Of the clearing
houses Of the United States for the week
ending Oct. :otl, was $99c,,77,So6.
The tlagsi,ip Of the Russian Pacific
squadron went ashore on Tuesday on the
rocks at Vladinstock, near Shanghai.
Five hundred millions of dollars is the
sum of money that the cattle disease has
cost Great Britain in the past IS years.
James X. Whitley, a brother of the great
reaper manufacturer, suicided at Spring
field, O., on Tuesday, by shooting himself
through the head.
At Paris, France, Count DeLesseps has
announced to the academy OF Science
that the Panama Canal will hs opened
February Sd, iS9o.
The propeller Vernon foundered of Two
Rivers, Wis. Not a soul was saved. The
number Of her passengers and crew has not
yet been ascertained.
a terrific gale ragged in the south OF Eng.
land Saturday night. Many houses were
unroofed, aud there were numerous ship
ping casualties in the Channel.
VIM. O'Brien, editor Of United H'h"d,
received three months sentence OF i'm
| prisonnent at Dublin. O'Bricn in prison
is worth $40 900 week to the Ir:sh cause
At the Consolidated Cattle Growers AS
sociation, at Kansas City, DR.. Azel Ame
was elected Secretary, and Granville Stuar
one Of the Executive Committee. Both o
Montana.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. ha
made reduction Of twenty per cent in dis
patches OF ten words between New York
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chi
cago and st. Louis.
There were seven new cases OF yellow
fever at Tampa, Florida, and two death
during the twenty -four hours ending Thurs
day night. There is no yellow fever il
the state outside Of Tampa.
The romance Of crime has been revive
in the story repeated Of the abduction G
A. Il. Stewards remains and negotiation
for the recovery, forms chapter in detee
tivc's forthcoming narrative.
The imperial commissioner at Cape Co
onv has officially notified the Englis
home government Of the discovery of eS
tensivc gold fields in Namaqua Land,
the Northwest part of the Cape Colon
district.
Advces by wire few days ago Of til
establishment OF fast sleeping.car expires
train between London and Lisbon via Pa
is means that the train is meant 20 connct
with the steamer for and from South Ame
ica and South Africa.
The municipal estimates OF the cNpe'
s,> of the city Of New York for the en>'
ing year amount to S;o,6oplSb. Tn
means an expense Of over $1,000 an hou
dav and night. This is an enormous bu
den, even for the great metropolis.
The general executive board OF tn
Knights OF Labor has ju>t issued circl
lar to be read at Il meeting OF all assemble
:. appcain. for contributions in aid OF II
striking anthracite miners. .\ccompan!
ing the circular is personal appeal tro'
General Master Workman Powderlv.
, Early on last Tuesday morning an e'
plosion of gasoline in the rear cellar
Michael Newman's grocery store,
Sout, Fourteenth street, st. Louis, lite
a two story building from its foundation
and dropped it back again in mass
ruins, beneath which were buried sever
teen persons.
\ special dispatch from Tahlcquah r.
ports that the greatest excitement prevail